⭐️ Total score |
2.22/5 (Rank #813)
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👍 Quality of life score |
Okay |
👶 Family score |
Bad |
🎒 Community score |
Okay |
💵 Cost |
😙 Affordable: $1,784 / mo
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📡 Internet |
🤬 Unusably slow: 5Mbps (avg)
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😝 Fun |
Okay |
⛅️ Temperature (now) |
🥶 Too cold: 9°C48°F (feels 7°C45°F)
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💦 Humidity (now) |
😊 Comfy: 63%
|
💨 Air quality (now) |
😷 Unhealthy for some: 139 US AQI
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💨 Air quality (annual) |
😐 Moderate: 83 US AQI
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👌 Safety |
Great
|
🤮 Food safety* |
Good
|
👮♀️ Lack of crime* |
Great
|
🤝 Lack of racism* |
Bad |
🎓 Education level* |
Mediocre |
⚡️ Power grid |
Great
|
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change |
Good
|
💰 Income level* |
Very low:
$677 / mo
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🙊 English speaking* |
Bad |
😤 People density |
🧘♀️ Low density: 7k ppl/km² (1 per 12x12m)
|
🚶 Walkability |
Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) |
Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* |
Bad |
🏥 Hospitals |
Bad |
😄 Happiness* |
Okay |
🍸 Nightlife |
Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city |
Bad |
🖥 Places to work from |
Good |
❄️ A/C or heating |
Bad |
😁 Friendly to foreigners |
Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* |
Bad |
👩 Female friendly |
Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly |
Bad |
🎅 Startup Score |
Bad |
🌍 Continent | Asia |
🚩 Country | China |
🗓️ Average trip length | 5 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) |
5 Mbps
⚠️ Internet in Dalian is fast averaging 40 Mbps but the Great Firewall slows down speeds to foreign websites by 8x to ~5 Mbps. |
⛅️ Weather (now) |
🌥 9°C 48°F + 😊 Comfy (63%) = feels 7°C 45°F
|
💨 Air quality (now) | 👎😷 139 US AQI = 🚬 🚬 / day |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👎😷 83 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
🔌 Power | 230V 50Hz |
🚕 Best taxi app* | Didi |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | Safetywing |
💸 10 CNY in USD | USD 1.38 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | CNY 1,000 = USD 138 |
💸 Tipping | No |
💳 Cashless | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners because WeChat is very hard to set up) |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
📸 Visitors per year | 940,000 visitors |
📸 Tourists now | 18,015 tourists |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 3,200,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $8,126 / year |
😤 Population density | 🤨 busy: 12x12m (144m²) per person |
👫 Gender ratio (population) |
👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) |
👨 56% 👱♀️ 44% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | China Southern |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Emirates |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,784 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,106 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $2,290 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $654 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $691 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $1,963 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $427 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $32 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $64 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $350 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $1 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $4 |
👩🏫 International school | $12,860 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $3 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg trip ~3km/2mi) | $2 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Very safe
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Easy to do business
✅ Safe for women
❌ No freedom of speech
❌ No democracy
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Feels crowded
❌ Difficult to make friends
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
❌ People smoking tobacco a lot
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels |
0° freezing |
32
0° freezing |
37
3° cold |
46
8° cold |
61
16° cool |
66
19° mild |
77
25° warm |
79
26° warm |
73
23° mild |
61
16° cool |
46
8° cold |
37
3° cold |
Real |
32
0°
freezing |
37
3°
very cold |
41
5°
very cold |
50
10°
cold |
61
16°
cool |
66
19°
mild |
77
25°
warm |
79
26°
warm |
73
23°
mild |
61
16°
cool |
49
10°
cold |
43
6°
very cold |
Humidity |
too dry 28% |
too dry 29% |
nice 35% |
too dry 29% |
nice 35% |
nice 43% |
nice 45% |
nice 40% |
nice 39% |
nice 32% |
too dry 28% |
too dry 25% |
Most common | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear | ☀️ Clear |
Rain |
dry 9mm |
dry 12mm |
dry 15mm |
dry 36mm |
dry 31mm |
rainy 88mm |
rainy 96mm |
rainy 76mm |
rainy 53mm |
dry 34mm |
dry 30mm |
dry 2mm |
Cloud |
pockets 28% |
pockets 15% |
pockets 29% |
pockets 34% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 50% |
pockets 47% |
pockets 36% |
pockets 32% |
pockets 33% |
pockets 22% |
pockets 21% |
Air quality |
bad 103 US AQI |
bad 110 US AQI |
bad 116 US AQI |
okay 98 US AQI |
okay 89 US AQI |
okay 86 US AQI |
okay 81 US AQI |
okay 64 US AQI |
okay 74 US AQI |
okay 79 US AQI |
okay 77 US AQI |
okay 88 US AQI |
Sun |
safe 2 UVI |
seek shade 3 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
avoid sun 6 UVI |
seek shade 5 UVI |
seek shade 4 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
safe 2 UVI |
Remote workers | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 0 people | 200 people | 200 people | 0 people | 0 people |
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